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ISLAMIFICATION: Despite a population of 500 million, Arabs can’t produce science and literature. They don't win the Novel Prize, the Fields Prize, and the Wolf Prize. Prior to Islam conquering the Middle East the region was the most advanced in the world.
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One reason young people want socialism so much is that they're jealous that older people have it and they don't.
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Mass immigration has been a catastrophe for Europe. There is no issue more urgent before the continent than to correct this mistake.
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Nearly every phone and computer on Earth relies on one plain-text file to know what time it is.
When a country changes its clocks with a few weeks’ notice, or Morocco pauses daylight saving for Ramadan, someone has to update that file. Since 02005, that someone has been Paul Eggert, a computer science professor at UCLA, who does it as a volunteer.
Take a look at this great data visualization to see the full story:
na2.hubs.ly/H08qtQC0
Same team handling the sandboxing of agent runs? 🤪
Making cool stuff is the point
True
And sad
En France, on a inventé le Concorde.
En 1969, il décollait et atteignait Mach 2 symbole de la grandeur gaullienne, conçu pour défier les Américains.
En 1972, le TGV 001 battait le record mondial à turbine (318 km/h).
En 1981, le TGV électrique reliait Paris à Lyon à 260 km/h. En 2007, il pulvérisait encore le record mondial sur rail : 574,8 km/h.
Dans les années 70, le plan Messmer lançait le plus grand programme nucléaire civil de l’Histoire : 58 réacteurs, jusqu’à 70-80 % de notre électricité, une indépendance énergétique que le monde entier nous enviait.
Dassault, Sud-Aviation, EDF, Framatome, la SNCF : nos ingénieurs étaient les meilleurs. On avait dix à vingt ans d’avance sur presque tout le monde.
Puis 1981, Mitterrand. Nationalisations massives (banques, acier, chimie, électronique, aéronautique). Semaine de 39 heures. Lois Auroux. Charges sociales qui explosent. Syndicats tout-puissants. Fiscalité punitive. Droit du travail rigidifié.
En moins de cinquante ans, le socialisme a transformé un pays d’ingénieurs conquérants en un pays de grèves, de délocalisations et de stagnation relative.
L’industrie est passée d’environ 28 % du PIB à 11 %.
Le Concorde a été abandonné. Notre nucléaire a été presque démantelé pendant des décennies faute de choix politique mortifère.
Ce n’est pas le destin, c’est le prix d’une idéologie qui a préféré redistribuer et réglementer plutôt que construire et innover.
A bon entendeur.
An impressive model result is the beginning of an engineering problem, not the end of one. The compiler got better. The program still has to be written, run and kept running
Engineers say agency for a system choosing how to do a task we assigned. Everyday language means choosing what to pursue without being asked
If the world were moved by intelligence, the smartest people would hold the armies, the budgets and the law. We observe rather the opposite
What moves the world is agency – stake, fear, desire, courage, a person others will follow. Intelligence shows up as staff. Agency shows up as the signature
We send it a context. It merges that with what it absorbed and outputs something we can run. We execute it, feed the result back, or we stop